Re: BJP routed in Delhi polls
Now BJP is really routed in Delhi. Only 3 seats out of 70, 67 to AAP.
Other parties are nowhere to be found
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Modi gracefully accepted the defeat. Hope congress does the same too.
Spoke to @ArvindKejriwal](https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal)** & congratulated him on the win. Assured him Centre’s complete support in the development of Delhi.
– modi
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Not sure what you mean. Bukhari asked Muslims to vote for AAP, and all indications are that AAP got a lot of Muslim votes. There are also many pictures available on the internet of Kejriwal meeting with Muslim leaders, wearing skull cap and doing all the standard drama that pseudo-secular politicians in India do.
I guess it did not help Modi playing right wing hindu nationalist card and trying to convert non-hindus to Hinduism. I guess communalism can play political dividends in India if you are out of power, but when you are in power you are expected to perform & Modi has failed bring his home state's magic to the national level.
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I guess it did not help Modi playing right wing hindu nationalist card and trying to convert non-hindus to Hinduism. I guess communalism can play political dividends in India if you are out of power, but when you are in power you are expected to perform & Modi has failed bring his home state's magic to the national level.
Communalism has nothing to do with this elections. This is a mandate for common men, in general elections it was vote for development.
India had its last communal election three terms ago. Now electoral politics have drastically changed, its all about development and day to day issues. AAP has done somethign amazing which has rare precedent in the world, all predicitons were proved wrong.
But on a cautious note, this is not a general trend, Delhi has highly educated and reactive public who are above cast, religion and family based politics. Its totally different from rest of the country.
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^^^ Communalism was very much at play…
AAP and Muslims: Attraction to traction for party
Did voters from religious minorities help swing it for the Aam Aadmi Party?
The short answer is Muslims’ preference for AAP in this election–after being initially cagey about it–was rounded and robust. This will only have helped cement the extraordinary landslide, not possible without full-bodied support from all quarters.
All these have showed up in the 2015 votes, still being counted.
According to the 2011 census, Muslim voters account for 12% of the electorate. A CSDS survey says 53% of them voted for the Congress in the 2013 assembly polls.
Now, in about eight seats, where Muslims make up 30%-35% of the vote, AAP is headed for decisive wins, such as Matia Mahal, Ballimaran, Chandi Chowk, Okhla, Seelampur and Mustafabad.
Congress candidates–such as Matia Mahal’s five-time MLA Shoaib Iqbal and Haroon Yusuf–are all set to lose (subject to final results).
Certain reference points in the AAP-minorities relationship will help put the turnaround in perspective. When it was still a protest movement, Muslims–about 11% of Delhi’s population–were noticeably aloof from it. The main reason for this aloofness was that the movement appeared to Muslims as a proxy propped up by the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
In its earlier avatar, the Arvind Kejriwal movement was primarily anti-Congress, so it must be pro-BJP, Muslims assumed. So, the Anna-Kejriwal movement did manage to alienate minorities and Dalits, who saw this as an upper caste mobilisation against a secular establishment. The strategy then was to a wait and watch.
What helped unfreeze the situation? A clearer personal stand against right-wing Hindutva political organisations by Kejriwal helped. In his door-to-door engagements with ordinary Muslims and undertaking a series of visits to Muslim religious places, Kejriwal took pains to explain his stand and talk to Muslims in terms of “real empowerment” as opposed to mere “symbolism” of secularism.
For Muslims, who now widely consider Congress’s secularism a hollow slogan that failed to empower them, Kejriwal made sense.
Once Kejriwal came out strongly against the BJP, the last of the barriers had fallen.
At one event, Kejriwal said he did not believe in “appeasement” and managed to engage Muslims on new terms–who by now seemed all too aware of empty cajoling as much of right-wing politics of religious intolerance.
Many Muslims with some social reputation started joining in.
?Irfanullah Khan, chairman of the Jamia Nagar Coordination Committee and a social activist, now leads the AAP’s minority wing. He is also a former Aligarh Muslim University student leader.
Others who had joined AAP include Mashkur Ahmed, a former Jamia Millia students’ union president, Arif Jamal, Shakil Malik, Shahid Azad and Rais Ahmed.
Along with them, more than 100 alumni of AMU and Jamia Millia joined the party at a public meeting held at Constitutional Club.
However, Kejriwal applied steadfastly to Muslims his overall model of political engagement. This was to sidestep community elites and patrons, such as village heads and elites, and engage directly with the masses in an unmediated way.
At the political crossroads, the path was clear for Muslims looking for a political anchor.
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Re: BJP routed in Delhi polls
AAP already rejected bukhari's support before elections. They are not a religion based party. Even if no muslim vote was cast for aap they still would have gotton 60 plus seats.
Delhi is above all these issues, delhi has educated class and a strong civil society (including people from north east i.e. chinese looking people for some) which reacts strongly on any development. ITs truely a aam aadmi vote this time for solving their local issues.
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This is a watershed moment for the democracy and politics in India. This will inspire our coming generations, from now on a new history will be written and told.
Its not victory of AAP, its victory of democratic system of India, a common man has made a difference rising above constitutional, religion, regional, community and status quo. It also has now separated national politics from regional politics. In a way it has also restricted the coalition form of govt which was almost a norm in india since a long time.
Though i dont like the result but i cannot not appreciate the change.
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Water is too precious a commodity to shed. Delhi walay, turn that tap off
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Lol, nahi southie sahab. AAP has promised free water and free wifi throughout the state.
turn that tap on, you are not going to pay the waterbill anyways.
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Something that maybe we in Pakistan can learn, the elections were conducted by BJP and won by APP (through thumping majority)...Free and Fair!!!
Re: BJP routed in Delhi polls
Funny thing is BJP's vote bank is still intact. They got 33% (barely passing marks lol ) in General Elections, 33% in last delhi elections in which they won 30 seats and even in this election they won 33% but got only 3 seats.
They lost mostly because their vote count didnt increase and AAP grabbed all the Congress votes.
Ironic that in same percentage they got unprecedented majority in general elections but got rolled over in this local election
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Something that maybe we in Pakistan can learn, the elections were conducted by BJP and won by APP (through thumping majority)...Free and Fair!!!
Elections were conducted by Election commission which is an independent entity.
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Elections were conducted by Election commission which is an independent entity.
i know we have an election commission in pakistan too...
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Don't think even AAP expected to win 67 seats; don't know where BJP stands on statehood for Delhi, but am sure Modi will now be against it just to sabotage AAP's agenda.
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^^ This is not an end of dirty politics for sure.
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A simple delhi election and all section voted for AAP and here it is looking like Muslim league and Congress are discussing about fate of Indian muslim all over again :)
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blame it on ISI...! (couldn't help :D)
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blame it on ISI...! (couldn't help :D)
I think they'll blame it on Obama who recently visited and said "Gandhi would be ashamed today for religous intolerance in India" :)
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I guess it did not help Modi playing right wing hindu nationalist card and trying to convert non-hindus to Hinduism. I guess communalism can play political dividends in India if you are out of power, but when you are in power you are expected to perform & Modi has failed bring his home state's magic to the national level.
Yes, the communal rhetoric from some BJP MPs in the days leading up to the election did not help BJP in Delhi. However, as already pointed out by other posters, Delhi has a very different electorate and BJP failed to grasp the pulse of the people. Even though I am not a fan of Kejriwal, AAP's win is a positive thing for the Indian democracy.